Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century's greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899-1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.
Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference.
This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from "e;Our Osage Hills,"e; a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews.
Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded ghetto away from the non-Jewish Polish population.
A milestone in modern Jewish history and American ethnic history, the sweeping influence of Louis Marshall's career through the 1920s is unprecedented.
Born of an Anglican mother and a Jewish father who disdained religion, Kaplan knew little of her Judaic roots and less about her famed great-grandfather until beginning her research, more than twenty years ago.
'Courageous, moving, bold and beautifully, brilliantly written' - Daisy Buchanan, bestselling author of InsatiableI am 13 years old and these are my secrets.
Wry and exhilarating, Chutzpah is a fearless exploration of what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves.
This book introduces the concept of the "e;Person One Could Have Become"e; and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences.
This book introduces the concept of the "e;Person One Could Have Become"e; and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences.
Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeiis treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians.
The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region.
Freedom of Religion protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life.
This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of rape and other forms of sexual violence, containing the latest information about victims and perpetrators; events, laws, and trends related to sexual violence; and attitudes toward it.
The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leila Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society.
The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war.
Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing-from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men's breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates.
Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors.
In this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author's native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country--a nation that continues to absorb and inspire him, both despite and because of its tortuous history.
The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia's death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty-now outlawed in Virginia-while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s.
Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.
This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucia Etxebarria's fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society.
A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911-1981) served as its first prime minister.
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world.
Almost from the moment in 1940 that Otto Frisch and Rudofl Peierls suggested, from their small office in the University of Birmingham, that an atomic weapon could be miniaturized and delivered to its target by aircraft, the concept of atomic espionage can be said to have existed.
Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.
Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved - but then she fought backGaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud.
Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsvath's extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hun-gary, living under the threat of the Holocaust.
As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive.
This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black-and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest-justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the commonwealth's history.
